Breast Cancer

Research from University of Sydney Yields New Findings on Breast Cancer

Published in Women's Health Weekly, July 28th, 2011

2011 JUL 28 -- "Core needle biopsy (CNB) diagnoses of ductal carcinoma-in-situ (DCIS) may represent understaged invasive breast cancer (IBC). We aimed to develop a model that helps identify preoperatively women with IBC after a CNB diagnosis of DCIS," investigators in Sydney, Australia report.

"Retrospective study of all women with DCIS on vacuum-assisted CNB of microcalcifications (1999-2008), with prospective classification of imaging variables independently by two radiologists. Variables included lesion size and level of suspicion on imaging, morphology and distribution of microcalcifications, DCIS nuclear grade on CNB, number of cores, and age....

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Source: Women's Health Weekly (2011-07-28)

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